With Learning Language Arts Through Literature your student will learn all the language arts skills with better retention using this natural, integrated method for learning.
A blend of dictation and units, lessons integrate all the fifth grade language arts skills: English grammar, creative writing, composition, spelling, higher-order reasoning, and study skills.

The Green Book seventh grade skills is divided into eleven sections:

Everyday Words (thirteen weeks) - The twelve dictation lessons in this unit will provide a thorough review of the parts of sentences.  As a further re-enforcement the student will learn how to diagram the parts in order to strengthen his understanding of how these parts fit together.  This unit has been divided into five smaller units and distributed throughout the book, enabling the student to enjoy a variety of activities in between.

Poetry Unit (six weeks) - The student will develop an appreciation for poetry while memorizing, reciting, and analyzing the works of different poets.  In addition, he will be writing poems and a psalm of his own.  A dictation lesson is provided later in the book as a review.

Book Study on Star of Light (three weeks) - While reading this book the student will complete such assignments as writing character sketches, comparing and contrasting cultures and religions, drawing maps, narrating, and more.

The Short Story Unit (three weeks) - The Student will enjoy exploring the elements of the short story.  He will be able to develop a story line, write dialogue, identify the conflict of a story as well as its climax and resolution.

Book Study on Adam and His Kin (four weeks) - A narrative history of the first eleven chapters of Genesis by Dr. Ruth Beechick is the basis for this four-week unit.  The student will develop skills in researching, drawing graphs, and writing narration.

Book Study on the Play Much Ado About Nothing (three weeks) - The student will read and study a Shakespearean play, developing the ability to understand and enjoy the work of this great playwright.

Research Unit (four weeks) - The student will learn the research process in manageable steps.  These include choosing a topic, taking notes, formulating an outline, writing a first draft, making revisions, completing the final draft, and writing a bibliography.

Review Activities
Review Activities are found directly after each Everyday Words section. New skills taught in each lesson are included in the Review Activities. It is not necessary to do each activity.  Simply choose the skills your student needs to review.

Assessments
Following each Everyday Words section, you will find an assessment.  You may use these assessments to grade your student accordingly.

Skills Index
The Language Arts Skills Index is located in the back of the Teacher's Book.   To ensure that skills commonly held appropriate for this grade level instruction were adequately covered, much research was involved in the writing of this curriculum.

Spelling
• adding s to words: ending in o,f,fe • adding suffixes • compound words • copy words • double consonant rules • spelling tips: ck, dge, ew, ff, gn, ie, kn, ll, sion, ss, tion, ture, ue, zz

Reading
• a Book Study Unit on: Star of Right, Adam and His Kin, Much Ado About Nothing • accent • analogy • Base or root words • book reports • character development • cinquain • cliché • climax • comedy and tragedy • comprehension • conflict • dialogue • diamante • fact • figurative language • haiku • historical fiction • imagery • implied metaphor • internal rhyme • limerick • malapropism • map skills • memorization • metaphor • mood • narration • opinion • personification • persuasive • arguments • plot • Psalms • recitation • rhyme scheme • rhythmic foot • setting • similes • suffixes • syllables

Grammar
• abbreviations • adjectives • adjectives phrase • adverbs • adverb phrases • antecedents • apostrophes • articles • being verbs • capitalization • commas • common and proper nouns • comparative adjectives • complete predicate • complete subjects • compound modifiers • compound phrases • compound sentences • compound subjects • compound verbs • conjunctions • dependent clause • determining direct object • diagramming • dialogue • dictionary • direct object • exclamation marks • gerund • graphs • guide words • helping verbs • hyphen • homonyms • indirect object • infinitive • initials • interjections • intransitive verbs • irregular nouns • irregular verbs • linking verbs • map skills • nouns • number words • object of the preposition • participle phrases • periods • plural possessive nouns • possessive pronouns • predicate adjectives •predicate nominative • preposition • prepositional phrases • pronouns • qualifiers • question marks • quotations • regular verbs • sentences • simple sentences • simple subjects • singular possessive nouns • split quotation • superlative adjectives • titles • transitive verbs • verbs • verbs phrase• verbs tense

Composition
• analogy • bibliography • book review • character sketch • characters • climax • conflict • contrast • drafts: first and final • editing • first person • graphs • introduction • mood • narration • note-taking • outline • paragraph • persuasive writing • plot • poetry • point of view • pre-writing • research • resolution • revising • second person • setting theme • supporting sentences • synonyms • theme • thesis statement • third person • title page • topic • topic sentences • transitional words

Research and Study Skills
• bibliography • encyclopedia • outline • research • thesaurus

Higher Order Thinking Skills
• charts • family tree • graphs • memorization • timeline • understanding sentence parts

Creative Expression
• clichés • imagery • oral presentation • poetry: cinquain, diamante, free verse, haiku, limerick, meter, structural poem • personification • recitation • rhyme scheme • similes

Penmanship
• copying passages •writing final drafts